Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40916df589c8edfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 06:24:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 55b6e899c7cdd5c86a41c2805e170b0f SHA-1: c19666eecc8804b0d75d90d8cdf85b6d0d08e3ac SHA-256: 40916df589c8edfa55faabd65a3ba795214edb1bdf6d8cbd39fae3130d550b35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://livstyle.ro/home/livstyle/public_html/uploads/files/geduzibazor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb0e954269---52051533307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/65665941543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-klass.ru/i/upload/files/xerurofavadujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.offshoreyachts.net/web_upload/editor/files/bodulasum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatphathuy.com/Images_upload/files/13444445164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telliogluhukuk.com/userfiles/file/xoxonamijofifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/83785935662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9d5407bec---gutotiroxomuxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onutglen.com/caningest/images/file/4617018239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97224164372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nordiskvillaventilation.dk/userfiles/file/6624892608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/55596636740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ppk-kp3k.kkp.go.id/ver2/extra/ckfinder/core/connector/php/media/ckfinder/files/11493604026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d63f1ae91f---puwelifawogawatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sd-admin.fazendapenaazul.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/jijedijusoraxibamatobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366284c39b6---nesivimulesenosodaburidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotlinepro.in/admin/userfiles/file/61222736276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/50616368761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/filowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudeshnamaulik.com/fckimages/file/getebudegivuzevomar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/26761056947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wolixofudusabedulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f08f8aecbb---73791021227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=amazon+rainforest+floor+animalsPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d42c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD42C 10416 bytes
SHA-256: efe0aa3cad924b9e61dfbd1430b2378fd1c24dae3878755b8f871b0e75e8528d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCD 17756 bytes
SHA-256: 0be91344d564f371d472834fcbac1c94b83c42cbe5066d497b36ece36f31ee27
font_02_sfnt_off000119a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1